CSEAS fosters a wide variety of research, teaching and outreach activities on Southeast Asia.
We offer academic year courses, a summer language institute, study abroad, public lectures, student research/study grants & degree programs. Sign up for our weekly newsletter here (you'll receive info on SE Asia related conferences, events, programs, funding, and more!): http://eepurl.com/hppz0n
03/08/2026
Should be really powerful — see the full description here: https://seasia.wisc.edu/event/friday-forum-bencharat-sae-chua-activist-scholarship-and-freedom-in-peril-in-southeast-asia/
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On Friday, 20 March 2026, Bencharat Chua, director of SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom and faculty in the Institute for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University, will give a talk in Madison!
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04/24/2025
04/08/2025
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02/26/2025
Professor and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies UW-Madison CSEAS - New Nam Kim joins NIU Center for Southeast Asian Studies for a hybrid talk on “’Barbarians’, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient ”
Feb 28 @ 12pm (CST)
https://tinyurl.com/y4rwk4rh
02/25/2025
IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: Arnon Nampa, Article 112 and Human Rights in Thailand
Zoom Webinar
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
7 am CST (Madison)
8 am EST (New York)
8 pm ICT (Thailand)
Registration: https://bit.ly/4gTghBq
Speakers:
Akarachai Chaimaneekarakate (Thai Lawyers for Human Rights ศูนย์ทนายความเพื่อสิทธิมนุษยชน)
Akanit Tadi (Freedom Bridge )
Frank Munger (New York Law School)
Moderator: Tyrell Haberkorn (UW-Madison)
Arnon Nampa (อานนท์ นำภา) is a 40-year old lawyer, father, poet and human rights defender who has been imprisoned since 26 September 2023 in Thailand. Arnon is charged with violation of Article 112: “Whoever insults, defames, or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent shall be subject to imprisonment of 3-15 years.” He is charged in 14 cases; his current sentence is 18 years, 10 months and 20 days, and may reach 100+ years. All of Arnon’s cases stem from peaceful expression as part of the Thai democracy movement. Join the speakers to learn about Arnon’s life and cases, his writing in prison, the situation of political prisoners, and the long history of activist lawyers in Thailand.
Sponsored by the Article 112 Project, the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab, and the Human Rights Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Center for Southeast Asian Studies UW-Madison CSEAS - New Getsea - A Consortium of Centers for Southeast Asian Studies
02/07/2025
Call for participation!
ANTI/AUTHORITARIAN
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Workshop at UW-Madison
24-26 April 2025
Keynote Speakers: Erik Kuhonta (McGill University), Tuong Vu (University of Oregon), Tyrell Haberkorn (UW-Madison)
As authoritarianism rises throughout Southeast Asia and the world, how can scholarship intervene? What questions about how power works and how people resist are urgently needed? What forms of research, analysis, documentation, and creative work can interrupt the violence wrought, past and present, by injustice throughout the region?
The Justice in Southeast Asia Lab in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies UW-Madison CSEAS invites you to join graduate student colleagues from UW-Madison, the keynote speakers, and UW-Madison faculty to examine these questions through a series of roundtables, presentations, and exchanges spanning empirical, theoretical and practical questions of scholarship in a time of authoritarianism. Participants will be asked to share a five-page/1500-word reflection on their work prior to the workshop; reading and engaging with one another’s reflections will form a point of departure for the workshop.
Eligibility: Any graduate student working towards a PhD degree on questions of social justice, broadly-conceived, in Southeast Asia and its diasporas. You do not have to be a candidate yet and can either be in the coursework or writing stage.
Shared accommodation for participants from outside Wisconsin will be provided and some travel funding may be available.
Complete Application Here: https://forms.gle/64Rsqjtqn99irUzCA
Application Deadline: 7 February 2025
Anticipated Notification of Acceptance: 15 February 2025
Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
06/12/2024
Really powerful and profound letters from Arnon to his child from prison. Highly recommended reading for Thai and all Southeast Asia scholars!
งานแปลใหม่ๆ จาก The Article 112 Project/Justice in Southeast Asia Lab ที่ Center for Southeast Asian Studies UW-Madison CSEAS!
อ่าน/ดาวน์โหลด **Letters from Prison: Volume 3** เขียนโดย อานนท์ นำภา (ฉบับที่ 51-75, เขียนระหว่าง 12 มกราคม 2567 และ 12 มีนาคม 2567): https://bit.ly/3xn2YIv
The Article 112 Project/JSEALab จะแปลจดหมายจากคุกที่อานนท์เขียนเรื่อยๆ เพราะเป็นทั้งการบันทึกของชีวิตประจำวันของนักต่อสู้คนหนึ่งและการบันทึกของความอยุติธรรมที่หลายคนต้องเผชิญที่ประวัติศาสตร์ขาดไม่ได้